USC
10-0 , 7-0
Arizona
2-8 , 1-6
Team Stats
ARIZ 3, USC 0
ARIZ - Folk,Nick 48 yd field goal 6 plays, 41 yards, TOP 1:54
ARIZ 3, USC 7
USC - Kirtman, David 5 yd pass from Leinart, Matt (Killeen, Ryan kick) 12 plays, 57 yards, TOP 6:07
ARIZ 3, USC 14
USC - White, LenDale 3 yd run (Killeen, Ryan kick), 5 plays, 71 yards, TOP 2:18
ARIZ 3, USC 21
USC - White, LenDale 2 yd run (Killeen, Ryan kick), 11 plays, 76 yards, TOP 5:15
ARIZ 9, USC 21
ARIZ - Fleming,Steve 9 yd pass from Kovalcheck,R. (Kovalcheck,R. passfailed) 2 plays, 40 yards, TOP 0:18
ARIZ 9, USC 28
USC - White, LenDale 6 yd run (Killeen, Ryan kick), 5 plays, 78 yards, TOP 1:35
ARIZ 9, USC 35
USC - Jarrett, Dwayne 13 yd pass from Leinart, Matt (Killeen, Ryan kick) 2 plays, 57 yards, TOP 0:31
ARIZ 9, USC 42
USC - Jarrett, Dwayne 12 yd pass from Leinart, Matt (Killeen, Ryan kick) 5 plays, 20 yards, TOP 2:40
ARIZ 9, USC 49
USC - Dennis, Hershel 1 yd run (Killeen, Ryan kick), 8 plays, 65 yards, TOP 3:43
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No. 1 USC Cruises Past Arizona, 49-9
November 13, 2004 | Football
Nov. 13, 2004
By JOHN NADEL
AP Sports Writer
LOS ANGELES (AP) - LenDale White is often overshadowed by electrifying teammate Reggie Bush.
He wasn't Saturday night.
While Bush was held in check, White ran for 118 yards on 16 carries and scored three touchdowns to lead No. 1 Southern California to a 49-9 victory over outmanned Arizona.
Matt Leinart passed for 280 yards and three TDs for the Trojans, who clinched the Pac-10 championship for the second straight year along with a berth in the Rose Bowl.
USC (10-0, 7-0 Pac-10) leads No. 5 California by one game with one remaining, but is the conference champion by virtue of its 23-17 victory over the Golden Bears last month.
The Trojans have an opportunity for much more. If they beat Notre Dame and UCLA in their last two games, they almost surely will play for the national championship, to be contested in the Orange Bowl.
USC's latest triumph extended its overall winning streak to 19 games, its winning streak in Pac-10 games to 14, and its winning streak at the Los Angeles Coliseum to 20. That ties the school record for consecutive victories at home, accomplished twice in the 1920s.
The Trojans have won 30 of their last 31 games and six this season by 30 or more points.
White, a 6-foot-2, 235-pound sophomore from Denver, scored on runs of 3, 2 and 6 yards, giving him 15 touchdowns in 10 games this season and 29 in 23 games overall.
Leinart completed a career-high 27 passes in 35 attempts including 11 straight at one stage and wasn't intercepted. He has thrown 23 scoring passes this season, 61 in his career and two or more in 21 of his 23 collegiate starts.
Favored by 35 points, the Trojans stumbled a bit offensively in the first half, falling behind early, blowing two scoring opportunities and leading just 14-3 at the intermission.
The second half was a different story.
White scored his second touchdown to cap a 76-yard drive with the second-half kickoff, making it 21-3.
Arizona (2-8, 1-6) drew within 12 points on a 9-yard pass from Richard Kovalcheck to Steve Fleming with 4:55 left in the third quarter.
The score was set up by Wilrey Fontenot's recovery of a fumble by Bush at the USC 40. Syndric Steptoe ran 31 yards on a reverse before the scoring play, which drew boos from some in the Homecoming crowd of 80,167.
That only seemed to anger the Trojans, who scored three touchdowns in the next 7 minutes for a 42-9 lead. White scored for the third time before Leinart threw scoring passes of 13 and 12 yards to freshman Dwayne Jarrett, who had six catches for a career-high 144 yards.
Hershel Dennis scored on a 1-yard run with 7:27 remaining to complete the scoring.
Nick Folk's career-long 48-yard field goal on Arizona's second possession gave the Wildcats an early lead.
It didn't last long.
Leinart threw a 5-yard pass to David Kirtman on the first play of the second quarter to put USC ahead for good. The key play of the Trojans' 57-yard drive was a 10-yard pass from Leinart to Alex Holmes on fourth-and-3 from the Arizona 27.
White's first touchdown with 2:54 left in the second quarter made it 14-3. He scored one play after freshman tailback Desmond Reed took a handoff from Leinart and threw a 55-yard pass to Jarrett.
Kovalcheck completed 15 of 32 passes for 165 yards with two interceptions. Mike Bell led the Wildcats in rushing with 74 yards on 15 carries.
Arizona drove into USC territory on its first two possessions and recorded five first downs before the Trojans got their first one. But the Wildcats did very little offensively after that.
